Building picture effects

I think the Picture Effects feature in QuarkXPress is incredibly cool.…It lets you make edits to pictures on QuarkXPress pages that otherwise you'd…have to go back to Photoshop to do.…This picture here, for example, I'm going to zoom in on, started out as a color image.…The little icon in the corner indicates that a picture effect has been applied to it.…If I go to the Window menu and choose Picture Effects, we can see what was done to it.…I'll get the Picture Content tool to select the picture right now, because it's…in a group and click on it.…

Now we can see that a Desaturate effect has been applied to that picture.…If we turn it off, we can see the original image.…But Desaturate is just one of many, many effects you can apply to a picture.…In fact, QuarkXPress surveyed their users and ask them what are the reasons…you need to go back to Photoshop to make changes to an image, and then they…incorporated the 80% most common changes right here in the Picture Effects palette.…The effects are bit-for-bit identical to what you'd get in Photoshop, but you…

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7/29/2009

QuarkXPress has always been the perfect tool for creating and publishing documents. In QuarkXPress 8 Essential Training, Jay Nelson—the publisher of Design Tools Monthly and a QuarkXPress expert—covers all the tools and features in this updated version of the program, from basic page layout to Flash integration and web page creation. Throughout this comprehensive training, Jay shows what's needed to produce professional-quality projects that integrate text, pictures, graphics, and tables. He also offers real-world page layout techniques that designers can apply to their own projects. Exercise files accompany the course.